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Book: Hatchet
Quotes of Book: Hatchet

Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
to him in legal terms how all that he lived in was coming apart-and the breaking and shattering of all the solid things. His home, his life-all the solid things. Divorce. A breaking word,
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
So this summer, this first summer when he was allowed to have "visitation rights" with his father, with the divorce only one month old, Brian was heading north. His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended. Brian was riding up from New York with some drilling equipment-it was lashed down in the rear of the plane next to a fabric bag the pilot had called a survival pack, which had emergency supplies in case they had to make an emergency landing-that had to be specially made in the city, riding in the bushplane with the pilot named Jim or Jake or something who had turned out to be an all right guy, letting him fly and all.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian. When the plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted him and dropped him and left him with nothing.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you'll come to bad luck.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again."
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
he wasn't sure if it was good and clean or not. He
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
So. So. So here I am." And there it is, he thought. For
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
Which Brian had done. They had taken off and that was the last of the conversation. There had been the initial excitement, of course. He had never flown in a single-engine plane before and to be sitting in the copilot's seat with all the controls right there in front of him, all the instruments in his face as the plane clawed for altitude, jerking and sliding on the wind currents as the pilot took off, had been interesting and exciting. But in five minutes they had leveled off at six thousand feet and headed northwest and from then on the pilot had been silent, staring out the front, and the drone of the engine had been all that was left. The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane's nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.
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